New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-10-31
THE Duty THAT PFU4iNS.


4 week from tomorrow Will be election day.
80 what remains to be done to insure Kcpub-
lican success must be done promptly. The
time for argument is practically closed. Clti-
zcns who have not already made up their minds
how they viii vote on the Sth Of November
arc not numerous enough to have any apprc-
cable effect on the result. The masses have
reached a conclusion. The reasons which
demonstrate that the common veal will be
promoted by placing IN once Colonel Grant
and his associates on the Republican ticket
| have faithfully been presented on the stump
and in our party journals. We believe that
these reasons have made an irresistible appeal
to the majority, so that if the full Republican
vote is pollcd Il gratifying Republican victory
! viii he secured.
The pressing duty that remains, therefore,
docs not relate to argument. but to organization.
The few remaining days Of the campaign ought
10 be devoted not 50 much to securing votes
! for the Republican ticket as TO dcyiSing ways
and means for getting to the polls all the Re
publican voters. This point cannot be brought
home too cmphatically to the party leaders
throughout the State. We have got the
strength to elect our canddatcs-Scc TO il that
it is put forth. If each one Of the local com
mittccs takes care that no vote is lost to the
Republicans which might have been gained, We
cannot be beaten. From every section Of the
State comes the same report TO THE TRIBUNE.
SagacOus political observers, while tcStifying
that Republican prospects seldom were brighter,
dwell upon this prime necessity Of making
strenuous cXcrtiOns TO get all the votes 10
which the Republicans arc entitled deposited
in the ballot box. II is rare that an election
is held in an :" off yeaI " at which good many
hundred votes are not missing which would
have been cast if the canvass had been as
thorough as it might have been In almost
every town in the State the voters may be
divided into three ClasScs-frst, those that are
sure TO vote; second, those who "ncvcr did
take much interest in politics, you know but
who viii vote if they are reminded that IT Is
election day third. what may be styled voters
on compulsion, those who have to be hunted
up and shamcd into doing their duty. We
trust hat there is not a school district between
Buffalo and Montauk Point in which arrange
mcnts will not be perfected this week for
getting al! The voters Of the second and third
classes TO the polls
Only those who fail to appreciate the political
situation in all its bearings regard this ~ an
off year" It is the key to the mOmcntous
election Of next year. All over the United
states the present canvass III this State IS en-
citing great interest, because Of the general
belief that as goes New-YOrk III 1881 50 Che
country viii 90 in 1888. Therefore, let us
not fail to DO our best. Our candidates are
popular and unassallablc. They stand on
platform cmbodyng principles which have
made kcpublcanism stand for security, strength
and progress in National and State Affairs
Opposed 10 us stands the Democracy Of tins
State, whose hopes Of victory are based upon
the support of the rum power and the the pat
ronagc at the command Of David Is. Hill.